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Lodge expects littlefrom public meetingsBy MICHAEL GOLDSMITH Associated Press WriterPARIS lt;AP) — Despite a public rebuff from the North Vietnamese, American peace negotiators in Paris indicate they arc still hopeful the Vietnam talks will soon enter a phase of *ecret contacts.After a fruitless six-hour session Thursday, U.S. chief negotiator Henry Cabot Lodge told newsmen: “I don't expect much to come out of these publicmeetings.Asked about a Communist report that at least one secret contact took place on American initiative last \yeek. U.S. delegation spokesman William Jorden grinned and repeated his longstanding rule never to comment on secret talks.He urged newsmen not to insist on detailed replies to all their questions “to permit the art of quiet diplomacy to work its way. Many of the newsmen felt this remark and his grin constituted an unspoken confirmation of the report.Nguyen Thanh Le. spokesman for the Hanoi delegation, accused the Americans of deliberately “spreading rumors of private meetings like straws in the wind. If the United States has anything it wants to discuss, headded, it can do so at the weekly formal conference sessions.The Thursday meetings have become a regular Thursday propaganda battle at which the opposing sides bombard each other with invective and restate their entrenched positions. The fourth such session Thursday was no exception.Jordon said Hanoi and the National Liberation Front repeated their “negative positions which amount to an ultimatum, namely. a demand that we abandon South Vietnam and that South Vietnam surrender to them.Lodge said he was “disappointed but not disheartened by the Hanoi-NLF attitude.Lodge repeated the U.S. proposal to begin a gradual military de-escalation by re-establishing the demilitarized zone between North and South Vietnam.Xuan Thuy of North Vietnam and the NLF's Tran Buu Kiem again rejected the proposal, saying once more that the conference cannot separate military and political issues. But later in the meeting Kiem called on Lodge to answer “two fundamental questions. whether the United States intends to withdraw its troops and to dismantle its military bases.Vito Genovese 'Kingof Racketeers' diesBy WILLIAM BARTON Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON (AP) - Vito Genovese, a diminutive Italian who became the nation's most notorious underworld figure of the 1950s. died today at the mcd-feal center for federal prisonersin Springfield, Mo.The Justice Department said death at 2:30 a.m. EST resulted from congestive heart failure for which the 71-year-old Mafia chieftain had been undergoing treatment for more than two months.He was indicted 13 times.But even in prison. Genovese's power in La Cosa Nostra, or the Mafia, was so immense that federal agents suspected him of continuing to run the far-flung crime syndicate.Once called “King of the Racketeers by former New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey,Genovese was serving n 15-year sentence for trafficking in narcotics—- the only major charge on which the government was ever able to convict him despite numerous arrests.fia's dominant figure in the mid-1950s after reputedly ordering the assassinations of two major rivals. Frank Costello and Albert Anastasia.An attempt on Costello’s life failed, and Genovese's bodyguard. tried for attempted murder. was acquitted after Costello testified he had never seen the accused assailant before.It happened in Keokuk100 yeert agoFeb. 14. 1869 Concordia Maenner Choir to present concert.75 year* agoFeb. 14, 1894 — Man known only as Old Man Holmes burns to death when fire destroys his home near Vincennes.. . . Keokuk Repuolicans petition* the legislature for local option bill on liquor to replace the Mulct law. . . Wahash is delayed 12 hours in snow drift at Elvaston. . . Hundreds enjoy the heavy snow by going sleigh riding.50 years agoFeb. 14. 1919 — City council and Civic League plan to set out colonade of forest trees along upper Main as soldier memorial. . . Ice men worried as lake shows no sign of freezingover.25 years agoFeb. 14, 1941 — Mrs. Allie Scott dies. . . Messiah Lutheran church damaged in Sunday fire.10 year* agoFeb 14. 1959 — Joseph Heevner dies. . . Labor dance produces $1.40C for March of Dimes.ATTENTION SERVICEMEN!LEAVE IIP?Let Us Make YourConnections to YourNext Duty Assignment.WEEK WEMAKEConnections for you anywhereyou wantDailv Fliaht Schedulebe emerged as the Ma- jtllir Dailti (Satr (Citii keokuk, iowaFRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 19693CONCERTKEOKUKby Mrs. C. H. GraceResearch from the files ofSI vie Presbyterian Church,later used bv the First Con-R. J. Bickel, Lee CountyHistoriangregational Church In theThe time has come to invitereaders into mv own Old Landmark at 126 ConcertIt is continually pointed out as the only house in Keokuk that faces north. Keokuk is utterly confusing where bearings and directions arc concerned. Main Street actually runs on a northwest tosoutheast direction, thoughto most people it seems to run straight north and south, but in the numbering of streets it is indicated as running west and east! what an inestimable blessing to live in a house where all I have to do is to face my front door and know when all else seems lo be out of kelter. that at least I am straight with the world.This is not one of Keokuk's oldest homes. It was built 90 years ago in 1879 on a site first occupied by the Newpioneer years, 1830’s, 40’s. The builder of the elevenroom brick home was Abr.iham Martin Hutchinson.steamboat man in the palmiest years of steamboating He filled every imaginable position on steamers, probably no one on the upper Mississippi river was better known or enjoyed a more extended reputation than he He started out at the age of 18 on the Ohio river but soon transferred to the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. He was the first manto navigate the Yellowstoneriver, commanding the first steamboats to reach Ft. Benton. He and his associates in the boatlines he superintended on he Mississippi along in the early 1870's ordered the bars taken o/f all the company owned boats and what intoxicants remainedin their possession after the order were dumped in theMississippi!One of the great boats Captain Hutchinson was master of was the “Gem Citv. On June 2, 1881. it arrived inKeokuk on it's fiist run from St. Louis, where it was built to be the fastest boat on the river. The boat was 300 ft. long by 36 ft beam, and drew less than 30 inches of water. It had 42 staterooms, berths for 300, and could accomodate 700 to 1000 passengers. It boasted the first electric spotlight It could make t7 miles an hour against the current.briery beard, and looks like he was just from the “BlackHills”.From R. J. Bickcl’s files I have discovered that the song of Bill Young's was one he composed in jail in memoryof his first wife, and which he sold 3000 copies of at 10c each. Also that on Wednesday. October 29. Young and his bride left by train for Luray. despite warnings of a mob forming. Arriving in Luray and at his farm where they were dining with the rest of his family, 1he mob'--W fof 200 rode in and proceededin charging the house, shooting Young and hanging him!Captain Hutchinson moved to Keokuk in 1875 from St Paul with his wife, two sons, Charles and Bard, and daughter. Effie. Charles assisted his father in managing the coal and ice business her** in the attic at 126 whenthe Grace familv moved here-letters were found written toBard Hutchinson from his father and brother when Bard was a student at I,a Grange College, La Grange. Mo. One written in 1879 (Nov. 24) by Captain Hutchinson asking permission of “Dr Cook” that Bard heallowed to come home and participate in the first Thanksgiving dinner in the new home.Other letters were to Bard from brother Charles and told all the social and sporting activities m Keokuk in his absence. for example, shell racing on the canal, and crosscountry walking. He comments on the presence in town of the notorious Win. Young of (’lark County. Young had been tried for the sensational axe murders ofthe Spencer family (five persons) on August 2, 1877 in n. Clark County Mr. Young had evidently been trained bv hisr •rjealous housekeeper and an ex-convict named Lane who passed himself olf as a detective and came to Clark County to collect the big reward for solving the Spencer mur ders. Young was tried and acquitted on Saturday, October 25, 187!) On Sunday, at Kahoka's Tremont house he married a 21 year old girl from Ohio, and brought her on Monday to Keokuk's finest hotel, The Patterson House at 3rd and Johnson for a honey-moon. In the letter to Bard dated October 27, Charles Hutchinson says:I suppose you have beenconsiderably interested in thetil dead From his owq. barnyard gatepost. 'f|ie Spence* murders were never solved.But back to the house at 126 Concert It still has 5 of it’s original 7 Fireplaces. Tim Kitchen, and quarters for Hi* “mammy were in the finished basement. Food was elevated to the dining room by dumb waiter. A billiard room-librnrv was in a separate building at the rear of t^e lot as was a carriage house. A glasshouse, for growing plants was attached to the east rear of the house.The original furnishingswere elegantly rich. A firm hall piece with a carved boars head, a 12 foot pier mirror inthe front parlor, and a 5 bv*4 foot mantel nurror framed m walnut, in the second parlor. a lovely cherry mantel etalgere. brass, chandeliers with etched globes, and the Captain's massive bedroom set remain in the houseThe Captain died in 1886at the age of 53 His funeralwas at this house and a longcortage proceeded by a bandof music took his bodv to•* '■[Oakland Cemetery. The Charles Andersons bought Hm house from Mr Hutchinson’s daughter in 1932. Mrs. Anderson. now' Mrs. Carl Schmidt, has several pieces from the house: the beautiful commode of the Captain's bedroom set, dining-room chairs, and her daughter owns gold plated brass andirons from the front parlorfireplace.Sponsors of this feature aim LINQU1STS, 518 Main. Keokuk, and J AND S PHARMACY', INC., 600 Main, Keokuk,who help to bear the cost ofits preparation and publication.*tlt;Siionrrr Mnrri#r patif* lutolv ifITrfflBRADFIELD MEMORIAL CHAPELWaraawSECURITY STATE BANKYoor Drive Inn Bank Member FDIC ReokakLINQUISTSHR Main KeokukJ * S PHARMACY, INC.Emergency Service Anytime 490 Main KeokukCHIEF MOTEL1700 Mein St. Ilya 01 titKeokukSEITHER A CHERRYPlumbing and Heating 90 YearaKeokukW. L. MILLER COMPANYBlacktop Contractor*F!va*ton, IllinoisHILL DODGE BANKING CO.dlnei ItM Warsaw, IllinoisSTREETERSPftinU\Yall covering* 100 MainDraperiesKeokukFraminMecMtLLANS INSURANCE AGENCYRonald K. Green*laughReal F*Ute Insurance1000 Broadway Hamilton, III,WISS A WISS INC.-Our 40th Year-Allla Chalmere Kahoka. 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Keokuk Daily Gate City
Keokuk, Iowa, US
Fri, Feb 14, 1969
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